Christopher Karpowitz

Oct 26, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Jessica Biggs |Christopher Karpowitz |Brigham Young

Keywordsauthoritarianism, immigration attitudes, immigrant populations, cognitive dissonanceCollegeFamily, Home, and Social SciencesDepartmentPolitical ScienceAbstractThe purpose of this project was to study whether exposing survey participants to information about immigration change will affect participants with high levels of authoritarianism.

Oct 26, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Robert J. Richards |Christopher Karpowitz |Brigham Young

Keywordsmotivated recall, political information, reporting an opinionCollegeFamily, Home, and Social SciencesDepartmentPolitical ScienceAbstractA great deal of political research has analyzed how people form their opinions about candidates and issues. Two models, drawing heavily from cognitive psychology have emerged: the memory-based model (Zaller and Feldman 1992; Huckfeldt et al 1999) and the on-line model (Taber, Lodge, and Glathar 2001).

Oct 26, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | David Lassen |Christopher Karpowitz |Brigham Young

Keywordsmulti-source television, news content, civic learning, media, American publicCollegeFamily, Home, and Social SciencesDepartmentPolitical ScienceAbstractConsumers of media during the past ten years have seen a dramatic shift in the way information is presented to the American public. With technical innovations associated with the Internet and the cultural adaptations that have accompanied them, modern American media has become increasingly interactive.

Jul 9, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Kyrene Gibb |Christopher Karpowitz |Brigham Young

Keywordseffect of identity, independent expenditure committee ads, election cycleCollegeFamily, Home, and Social SciencesDepartmentPolitical ScienceAbstractIn the 2012 Presidential election cycle, independent expenditure committees, or Super PACs, had spent a more than $237 million advocating for one or the other presidential candidate (OpenSecrets.org, 2013).

Mar 26, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Christopher Karpowitz |Brigham Young |Katherine Westmoreland

Keywordscosts of voting, voter turnout experiment, electoral processCollegeFamily, Home, and Social SciencesDepartmentPolitical ScienceAbstractIn the 2014 presidential election, only 36% of eligible voters cast a ballot on Election Day. Voter turnout is especially low in non-presidential elections and the already bleak number of voters is heightened when examining young voters, withonly 21.3% of 18-19 year-olds voting in 2014.